Simple way to feed fr24 from a dongle

I recently got an RTL2832U dongle, and struggled for some time in find a decoding software that would:

* Work on Linux
* Without running a GUI
* Ubuntu x86
* Would read directly from a dongle
* Would enable fr24feed to read from it

I tested lots of combinations, but all required multiple software, to read, process, and output. Some, like adsbox, require a GUI. I wanted something I could run from a single shell script.

dump1090 https://github.com/antirez/dump1090 works well, but output only AVR records. It has the advantage of being small, shows more planes than gr-air-modes, and simple to compile. But the AVR output was a deal-breaker, I would still need translation software to convert to SBS-1 30003 format.

At 3am one night, I dropped an email to the author, Mr Salvatore Sanfilippo, asking for his suggestions for a translating software. 3 hours later, while I slept, I got an email saying he had added the code to dump1090.

Everything now works great. I run, on the console (no GUI)

dump1090 --net --interactive --aggressive # the last two are optional
fr24feed_x86_225--fr24key=MY-KEY

and magic happens. Real magic.

I am running this on a 7 year old laptop, feeding data for the last week.

My thanks, publicly, to dump1090; and you are welcome to contact me for any details you may need to reproduce my setup.

i'm still searching for a decoder to connect direct via NETWORK to SBS-3 on port 10001 (without BS and PP)
output should be to localhost port:xxxxx, data could be in hex or ready to use for fr24feeder.
sbs1xxx couldn't connect to SBS-3 on port 10001, because of an authentication failure.